What do you fear?

I actually WAS kidnapped, thankfully not for very long. Apparently I screamed my head off all the way down the mall, and then lady who nabbed me dropped me in a fountain, where I happily played until I was retrieved. I can only imagine how my mother felt!! That incident has left me with a fear of kidnapping...not of someone kidnapping me again, I was too young to remember the incident, but of someone kidnapping my nieces or my own kids (when I am finally lucky enough to have some!). I had a HORRIBLE dream one night that my nieces were kidnapped. I have already warned Solorad about how I will be with our kids.

As for other fears...

I am afraid of the dark, unless my husband or dogs are around.

I have an irrational fear of monsters, like Dracula, even though I know they don't exist.

Heights, and tied in with that is a fear of flying. I think it's more of the crashing part that I am afraid of .

Getting motion sickness, because I am very susceptible to it and it usually leads to me throwing up, which I dread.

My house catching on fire while I'm not at home, and my dogs dying in the fire .

ROACHES...yuck! Most other incects don't bother me, unless they are flying. I like spiders, but I don't like to touch them.

Failure. It haunts me every day, in every experiment I do. But I have come you realize that failure is a part of life. You win some, and you lose some. It's what you do after a failure that is important.

Public speaking. I have to do this a lot because of school/work. I can handle it now, but it is still tough.

Solorad dying in a motorcycle accident. Or really, dying period .

My brother becoming completely debilitated due to his MS. That's why I am going to school! And my mother having to get a liver transplant because of her autoimmune disease. Also why I am going to school!